Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP)

In 2008, working out of an abandoned McDonald's building on the NASA campus in Sunnyvale, a group of dedicated scientists, former NASA employees, and three 12-year-old interns began a project to recover the original NASA Lunar Orbiter images from 1966-67, integral for the safe landing of the first Apollo landing on the moon. Due to neglect and indifference over time, the original data, stored on large tape reels, was nearly lost. Now, fifty years after the Lunar Orbiter project, this vital piece of lunar mission history has been saved, enhanced and digitized, thanks to the tenacity and foresight of a handful of self described “techno-archaeologists.” Our museum will partner with LOIRP to bring this extraordinary piece of NASA history to the public, and support the ongoing efforts of the LOIRP team.

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